Home Department written question – answered at on 29 October 2008.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many dispersal orders were issued by each police authority area in England and Wales in each of the last five years.
1,065 areas were designated under section 30 of the Antisocial Behaviour Act 2003 between
Designated areas( 1) | |
Force | Number |
Avon and Somerset | 30 |
Bedfordshire | 29 |
Cambridgeshire | 31 |
Cheshire | 1 |
City of London | (2)— |
Cleveland | 3 |
Cumbria | 2 |
Derbyshire | 22 |
Devon and Cornwall | 49 |
Dorset | 31 |
Durham | 2 |
Dyfed Powys | (2)— |
Essex | 24 |
Gloucestershire | 1 |
Greater Manchester | 45 |
Gwent | 6 |
Hampshire | 69 |
Hertfordshire | 20 |
Humberside | 15 |
Kent | 73 |
Lancashire | 18 |
Leicestershire | 30 |
Lincolnshire | 4 |
Merseyside | 70 |
Metropolitan Police | (3)— |
Norfolk | 18 |
North Wales | 16 |
North Yorkshire | 6 |
Northamptonshire | 67 |
Northumbria | 3 |
Nottinghamshire | 40 |
South Wales | 2 |
South Yorkshire | 16 |
Staffordshire | 30 |
Suffolk | 5 |
Surrey | 33 |
Sussex | 35 |
Thames Valley | 6 |
Warwickshire | 22 |
West Midlands | 123 |
West Yorkshire | 22 |
West Mercia | (3)— |
Wiltshire | 19 |
Total | 1,065 |
(1) January 2004 to March 2006 (2) No designated areas. (3) No data provided. |
Yes1 person thinks so
No0 people think not
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